All in the Family

What's in a name? Magic, it seems, if the name is Gandhi or Nehru, and
the place is India. An unofficial royal family that President Reagan
aptly compared to the Adams family in the U.S. and that Indians liken
to the Mogul emperors and maharajahs of ages past, the House of Nehru
has reigned over independent India in one almost unbroken dynastic
line, passing the scepter down from one generation to the next. By now
the system of one-family rule has become so firmly entrenched that the
newsmagazine India Today calls India "a democratic...